Q&A for How to Make a Simple Trap in Minecraft

For trap one: be careful and break any pressure-plates visible. For trap two: break the block above you and jump (it will de-activate the pressure-plate and open the door); before you fall, try to go out of the door. You can also try breaking the door or the pressure-plate.

Try disguising the trap so that the person don't realize it's there. You can also trick the person into walking onto the pressure plate.

You want to make the trap in a way that the victim does not know it is, in fact, a trap. One example is that is a pressure plate can be easily seen, so try another method of activating the trap that's less obvious, such as a tripwire.

Make a little room around the trap with just enough room to walk onto the pressure plate. Make it look like a house with the trap inside.

You could make the pressure plate trigger TNT, allowing victims to fall into a lava pit previously covered by dirt.

Make a large hole in the ground that is large enough to result in fall damage, then place TNT one layer below the ground block. Place sand on top of the TNT so the ground is even. Put a pressure plate in the sand'; when you walk on it, you will fall.

Place trapdoors next to pressure plates. There's a chance that hostile mobs will walk on them.

Yes, you can do that. It will cause them to die or be injured badly.

You can play on multiplayer mode or go to a public server. Do not play in single player mode, as you will play alone only in that mode.

You could turn on cheats, or mine 7 blocks above bed rock to find lots of iron.

Turn on cheats and then press "t." Type in "/give (your username) 64 bedrock" - this will give you a stack of bedrock.

Yes. I've trolled many people with this one. Put the TNT below a layer of sand or gravel and the end portal underneath. When your victim steps on the pressure plate they will fall into the end. If you want to you can build a house around this for the ultimate trap.

Only if you use wood or gold plates. Iron may work also, but it needs a lot of items.

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Create a valuable bait, such as emeralds, diamonds, and dragon eggs.

You place the doors with the spines/hinges facing the plate.

It's possible. To avoid this, jump away as soon as it flickers. If you die, just respawn.

Yes, but you need to camouflage the block at the bottom of the pressure plate.

You would use a sticky piston which when activated would reveal lava pit. Also, you could blow it up, then the explosion would destroy dirt blocks, revealing the lava pit.

Put a pressure plate by the player's bed and put TNT under it. Make sure the pressure plate is where they wake up automatically.

No, unless you're using a mod where bosses/hostile mobs can kill you in creative.

Yes, but you need to set spawnpoint with commands on the lava or fire pit. You can also put lava or fire at the current spawn point.

Yes, it should work the same.

Yes, because when anything steps on the pressure plate the trap will be set off.

Yes, you can. Switch to creative mode with /gamemode c, and you wont get hurt if you activate your trap.

If the observer senses changes on the "face" side, it will send a redstone signal on the opposite side. It is usually used for traps. It will not sense player movements. It will only sense block placement/destroying, and block state changes (a lever flicked, a button pressed, etc.).

You can't as far as I know. What you can do is make a pressure plate lead to a dropper, then you can make diamonds shoot out.

You most likely can, unless he can teleport. It depends on the mod that you use.

You don't make them, you find them in strongholds. Try launching an eye of Ender. It will land in a certain place, and that is probably where the stronghold is.

Go to a beach or desert. Chances are, you will find some sand. Then just use a shovel to dig it up faster.